Shawn Johnson East

Going into the show, they treat it like an option.

They say, this is going to be a 10-day course, like a 10-day challenge.

Let's see how long you can last.

You can leave at any time, any time you want.

You don't have to say why.

For any reason, any time you can leave.

And they would say this over and over and over again.

Are you going to make it a day, two days, three days?

How long are you going to make it?

Whatever.

And this is – as we're like writing this book, I remember thinking about some of the chapters we wrote about like boredom and about how you just have to choose something.

And you can't be – decision paralysis is a thing if there's too many options.

Yeah, absolutely.

But I remember going in on day one.

having these thoughts in my brain having all these voices of like am I going to make it to day five am I going to make it to day six like trying to go through all these like options of what could it look like to force me to leave or to like and I just remember thinking about this book and thinking okay no I'm choosing 10 days it is a 10-day camp I'm here for 10 days I'll deal with anything else

And I never let myself think about anything else.

And I remember it feeling very freeing on the show, though you're getting tortured.

This might be a bad example, though you're getting tortured and though you're going through hell and back.

It was never a choice for me.

I was just like, OK, two days down, eight to go, three days down, seven to go.